The mission consists of two spacecraft: the Mercury planetary orbiter (MPO), a three-axis stabilized satellite dedicated to the remote sensing of Mercury, and the Mercury magnetospheric orbiter (MMO), a spin-stabilized satellite devoted to the study of the Hermean magnetosphere and its interaction with the solar wind.
With the recently completed sale of its satellite-making operations to Boeing, Hughes is nearly out of the manufacturing business altogether and devoted to delivering programming via satellite.
The first satellite devoted to oceanographic observations was Seasat, which orbited Earth for three months in 1978.
(860) 443-5378, www.theoneill.org GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE; NORMA TERRIS THEATER -- Those visiting the Norma Terris Theater in Chester, the Goodspeed satellite devoted to new musicals, should prepare for eardrum overload: one show offers a faux Tammy Wynette, and another the real Linda Eder.
Related sites OGLE home page, with details of planetary transit Compendium of all extrasolar planets to date Kepler, a future NASA satellite devoted to transit searches.
"GALILEO GALILEI" (GG) is a proposal for a small, low orbit satellite devoted to testing the Equivalence Principle (EP) of Galileo, Newton and Einstein to 1 part in 1017.
In 2008, BEIDOU is composed of geostationary satellites devoted to augment GPS performances, as EGNOS does in Europe or WAAS in the USA, but, officially, a global competitor system is announced in the coming years.
This fall, NASA and the Department of Energy plan to invite proposals for a $600 million satellite mission devoted to dark energy.
The relatively small showing of Asian galleries is, however, counterbalanced by a major satellite event devoted to Asian art running through Sunday in the form of Art Asia Miami.
SETI's resurrection was announced at the start of a weeklong conference here devoted to results from the Kepler satellite, which is conducting a cosmic Gallup poll to determine the fraction of stars that harbor habitable, Earth-like planets.
